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I’ve always loved gardens and green spaces. When I was in college, I would periodically take a day and drive up into the mountains, and sit in the woods, preferably by a stream and listen to the sounds of nature and let the green, and
In Luke 17 Jesus tells an interesting little story. He asks those present if they can imagine a master when his servant comes in from working in the field to sit down and be fed and have a drink. The implied answer is, “No. We
I didn’t know when I wrote down these three simple prayers that they were progressive in nature, and the Lord has answered them concurrently, or at least overlapping. Faithful prayer is about laying down roots, the deeper the better. Holiness is about refusing to give “dirt” to
In the last post, I introduced three short prayers that I’ve had taped to the wall of my prayer closet for at least a year. I don’t really know how long, but at least that long. They are: Show me what it means to be
I have an index card taped to the wall in my prayer closet with three short prayers written on it. These prayers came to me in a time of prayer, and I felt them so sincerely in the moment that I wrote them down and
My brother has a prayer that came straight from God during his prayer time. He has prayed some form of that prayer over and over and over again. It is a beautiful prayer of surrender. My friend Barbara has a prayer that came to her in
“Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit,
Intercessors are the type A administrative assistants of God, right? They have lists upon lists and pray day and night without a breath of silence, right? Actually, the best intercessory times I’ve personally seen, never had a list at all. They weren’t conducted like a business
In an earlier blog I said, “Prayer is how we approach God.” Well, what you believe about God often determines how you approach. People tend to think that prayer is asking God for things. And to be fair in the old Shakespearean English “I
Prayer is the way we approach God. Our eagerness to draw near is a measure of how we are doing with the first Rule: Love the Lord your God with all your heart. Jesus taught on how to pray and what prayer should and should
